Bishop Keiran Conry writes on child abuse and the Church

'The Catholic Church should learn to listen to its victims; but we should all consider that the problem is not confined to Catholics.

'When I went to work for the Catholic Church's media office in London in 1993, the three most common news stories about the church had to do with contraception, celibacy, and condoms. When I left seven years later, the topic of contraception had been displaced by the issue of the abuse of children.'

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